photo taken by Samantha Tucker
my artist bio
Abstract Expressionist Artist
I'm an abstract expressionist artist, live painter, performance artist and producer, art minister, and world traveling art missionary.
revelatorART
this is my full-time art business. I create paintings and artwork to sell. I do abstract expressionist concepts in mixed media, commissioned work, interactive art engagements with groups, private one on one abstract expressionist sessions, mural painting
Live Painting
I paint live as a visual experience for the audience at art events, concerts, and church services. I like to work in collaboration with other artists, musicians, speakers.
VineArts Boise
I minister to artists of all ages, skill levels, backgrounds, to encourage creativity within community through a local art ministry. This has included coordinating/installing/curating a gallery, co-facilitating small group book studies and collaborative art activities, monitoring at community based open studio sessions, live painting during large congregational services, collaborative work on large scale backdrops, and co-planning national arts conferences.
Marten Evergreen
I am a co-founder of a performance art company that incorporates choreographed dance, live painting, music, and story into avant-garde live performances produces for art events and private events.
Reflect Art Conferences
I am part of the planning team with the non-profit 3rd Tribe for bi-annual national art conferences (originally named Creative Church Conference) that aim to gather artists and ministers together to focus on the conversation of creativity as ministry in and out of the church through interactive collaboration with artists, speakers, and performers from around the world.
Traveling Art Minister
I travel around the world connecting cross-culturally through creativity. I have found that art is a language that we all speak and it's a great way to enter the conversation human to human to build community. I utilize art through live painting, small group art activities, collaborative art projects, and creative conversation to get to know people and allow for creative expression.
why i do what i do
I believe art is a language that transcends all language barriers. It's able to get past the walls of cultural differences, age, race, gender, religion, politics, economic standing, education, distance, even time. Creativity is like a conversation. There are conversations going on all the time. Conversations with the artist and the work, with the artist and the Divine, with the artist and nature, with the artist and humankind, with the artist and self. Creativity allows me to come alongside others and enter into the conversations that are already happening. I love listening to conversations. If I'm invited into the conversations this brings about collaboration. Collaboration is an invitation to the sharing of ideas and it's a huge part of building relationship. I believe humankind is a relational people. We need each other. I believe we were created that way by a creative God who is all about relationship with us. And I believe we've been given creativity as a language to relate to each other with. When we connect into the conversation through creativity and allow for collaboration, we are helping to build community together and this fosters relationship. And the walls become invisible between us.
a bit more about how i started
I have formally studied art at Seattle Pacific University and the University of Wisconsin Madison. I have two Bachelors degrees from Northwest University; one in Youth Ministry (Adolescent Social Services) and one in Behavioral Science (Psychology). I began pursuing art full time in 1999 and I started my art business, “revelatorART” in 2001. I have worked with individuals and groups of all ages through art counseling, art ministry, and art instruction. I am nationally and internationally sold and have displayed my paintings in numerous venues (galleries, coffee houses, bookstores, juried shows, state fairs, solo and collaborative art shows) all around the world.
about my art
When painting, I often embed materials like coffee grounds, scraps of writing, and found objects into my work. Sometimes I don't use easels or brushes, instead using a Jackson Pollock-like approach where I paint flat on a table or the floor. I like hovering over my work and I am able to walk all around the canvas to get different perspectives. In painting my mixed media abstracts it gives me the ability to let the paint splatter or drip, going wherever it needs to go.
I've always been very tactile and I love being able to feel the paint as I create.
what i do
*abstract expressionist concepts in mixed media
*commissioned art
*live performance painting
*interactive art engagements with groups
*private abstract expressionist sessions
*mural painting
*world travels to build cross-cultural art communities
photo taken by Lukas Evergreen
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